Ink Before Dawn

Lyrics: BAGMAN Music: BAGMAN 【未经Copyright人许可不得翻唱翻录或使用】 Before dawn, the ink is breathing Black river under paper skin I write your name without a sound Then watch the morning take it in A candle leans beside the window A moth is circling the blue The courtyard holds its old cold water Like it has been waiting too I came from rain and foreign stations With a heart I could not read Now every brushstroke turns to silence Now every silence turns to need Ink before dawn Dark flower in the water I loved you like a shadow Too late to call it home Ink before dawn One line and then another If daylight finds this letter Let it say I let you go The bamboo knocks against the eaves A small reply from empty air I hear the world prepare for morning But I am still kneeling there Your face is not a painted face It moves behind the paper white The more I try to make you stay The more you vanish into light I should fold the grief and seal it I should leave the table clean But love has made my hand a river And the river follows me Ink before dawn Dark flower in the water I loved you like a shadow Too late to call it home Ink before dawn One line and then another If daylight finds this letter Let it say I let you go When the sun lifts up the roofline All my words will look so small Still the ink remembers everything The mouth could not say at all